A Damn Good Ride on Huge Robots Fighting Huge Monsters

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2013)

Only one word can describe Pacific Rim, and that is "Wow!". It got everything I need in a robot vs monster movie except one thing, which otherwise would make it a perfect movie.
The movie got huge robots and huge monsters (that's obvious). It got great CGI, great robot vs monster fighting sequences, a surprisingly quite good story (which should be expected in a Guillermo del Toro movie, but which I didn't expect much at first in this kind of movie), rocket punch, Portal game's GlaDOS voice, and it even got (borrowing the term from Voltus V anime) the "Tenkuu ken"! How awesome it is! But, as I said before, it is missing something. Something very important.
== Warning: this part may contain spoiler ==
Because Guillermo himself said that he wanted to "honor" the kaiju and mecha genres (while creating an original stand-alone film), and because he also said (in one of the promotional featurette videos) that he was influenced by Japanese big robot anime of his time like "Tetsujin 28", and also because one of the promotional posters featured a Japanese jaeger called "Coyote Tango", the absence of a Japanese jaeger really bothers me. I would give this movie a perfect ten stars if it shows even one sequence of a Japanese robot kicking a kaiju's ass, and not just featuring one Tokyo scene and two Japanese actresses. I personally think that Guillermo should at least give a nod to Japanese mecha anime genre. But no, Coyote Tango was not in the movie, so I take out two stars out of this movie.